An early pre-emptive letter from Santa
I had this letter from Santa this morning. We have a long and regular correspondence going back some years. You can read previous letters by looking up 'Santa Writes to Me' posts. Here is today's letter. I am still feeling hurt by it. Lapland August 2010 Dear Fran You usually write to me with your requirements at the end of August, no matter how many times I have asked you to leave your letter until at least November. This year, I thought I would anticipate your letter and clear up a few matters which are still hanging over from last year. May I point out the following?.... 1. Elves have limits. They have to distribute their energies equally in sorting out the hundreds of thousands of requests we receive each year for presents. This means that we cannot accept lists like yours from last year which run to fourteen pages of A4 paper. These fourteen pages did not even include the pages from the IKEA catalogue, the NEXT catalogue an...